Still Using Film?
We Test Different Ways
To Get It Developed

By

James Bandler Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Dec. 2, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

With digital photography so hot, you might think traditional film is headed the way of eight-track tapes.

Not yet. Although film is fading, and digital cameras now outsell traditional ones, Americans will develop 686 million rolls of film this year, according to the Photo Marketing Association. That makes silver-halide film by far the primary technology used when people buy pictures.